Improvement in button-cards



' G. P. FARM'ER Button-Gard.

No. 222,482. Patented Dec. 9, 1879.

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NJHERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTONv D C- UNITED STATES PATENTOEEIoE.

GEORGE FARMER, OF MONT CLAIR, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTON-CARDS.,

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 222,482, dated December9, 1879; application filed November 10, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that-I, GEORGE P. FARMER,

of Mont Clair, Essex county, New Jersey, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Button-Oards,-of which the followingis a specification.

My invention relates to that class of buttoncards in which a number ofsmall cards, each carrying a dozen or any other-determinate the saidstrip.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 .represents a plan view of partof a buttoncard drawn to an enlarged scale; Fig. 2, an edge view of Fig.1; Fig. 3, a section of the card, and Fig. 4 a perspective view of the 1device for attaching the smaller to the larger cards.

A is a strip of pasteboard or other suitable material forming the maincard, to which are T attached any desired'number of smaller cards, I

B, and to each of the latter are attached twelve buttons, (1. I usuallyattach twelve of the smaller cards to the strip A, so that the latterwill display a gross of buttons.

i It is important that the smaller cards should admit of 10cm g readilydetached from the main strip bythe retailers for purchasers. For thispurpose I provide each of the small cards with two flexible metallictongues, 01. d, projecting from the back of the card, as shown in Fig.

2. These tongues are arranged to pass through they can be readilywithdrawn from the main strip. The tongues form part of apla-te, D, Fig.4, in the body of which are two holes, 6 6, so arranged in respect tothe two central buttons of the card that in stitching the former to thelatter the stitches will pass through the said openings, the plate Dbeing thus confined between the buttons and the card, through slits inwhich the tongues 11 d of the plate project.

I usually cover each of the small cards before the buttons are stitchedto the same with tin-foil, f, which conceals thebod y ofthe plate D.

I claim as my invention- 1. A button-card in which a number of smallcards, B, each carrying a number of but tons, and having at the backelastic metallic tongues 01 d, are combined with a strip, A, havingslits for receiving the said tongues, all substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the plate D, having tongues 01 d and openings 6 6,with the card B and its buttons, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE P. FARMER.

